Our otters love to play with toys, lounge in ice buckets or just snooze. We feed ours four times a day, often putting the food in toys to stimulate the otters' natural behavior of pounding and working to get food out of shells.

Our aquarists also teach the otters behaviors, like holding a target with their paws or walking onto a scale. Training keeps our otters mentally and physically stimulated—it also makes working with the otters safer for us and less stressful for them.

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Our free app for iPhone and iPod touch takes advantage of Apple's new indoor positioning to make it easy for visitors to pinpoint their location and quickly navigate to the most popular exhibits, animals and amenities using a new interactive map.

Join the Aquarium in Napa Valley on April 25 for this unique food and wine event with The Hess Collection's executive chef and sustainable winemaking team, plus special guest chefs. You'll savor ingredients grown right on the vineyard and taste small lot releases offered only at the winery.

A perpetual color machine, the flamboyant cuttlefish continually flashes an array of vibrant yellow, maroon, brown, white and red hues along its body. We're one of only a few aquariums that have ever displayed this striking species, and you can see it now in Tentacles!

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Otter Program has been studying the threatened southern sea otter since 1984 with the aim of understanding threats to the population and promoting its recovery. We rescue, treat and release injured otters; raise and release stranded pups through our surrogate program; seek homes for sea otters that can't return to the wild; and conduct scientific research.